Cosmic curveball: Distant system challenges planet-formation theory

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...
Scientific American

Our solar system is surrounded by weird peanut-shaped objects. Astronomers think they know why

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

Help NASA prepare for the next solar storm disaster

NASA has always made it a point to encourage us citizen scientists to lend them a hand. Right now, they could really use your ...
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New AI tool can predict solar storms weeks before they strike, safeguarding Earth’s critical systems

Solar storms and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can disrupt everything from satellites to power grids. A new AI tool, PINNBARDS, developed by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and NSF-NCAR, can now ...